Comments on Linux killall Command for Beginners (8 Examples)

We've already discussed the kill command that you can use in case you want to terminate processes in Linux. However, there exists another command line utility that you can use for the same purpose: killall.

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By: Max

It would be helpful to say what means "name" of the process! It seems one can only use the basename of the executable, is it? can the dirname and/or command line arguments  be included in the selection criteria? (You didn't mention the -r = --regexp option which would be most helpful in that case.)

By: Dr. Vidhu Baggan

Very nicely explained